A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

He listens equally to the prayers of the believer and the unbeliever.

Henry David Thoreau

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Believer Equally Listens Prayers

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

Nachman of Breslov

If you know that I am an unbeliever, then you know me better than I do myself. I may be an unbeliever, but I am an unbeliever who has a nostalgia for a belief.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

John Ruskin

The unbeliever imagines that religion pretends to offer answers, while the believer knows that the only promise it makes is to multiply questions.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

I believe God always listens to our prayers.

Paula White

The abundance of a grateful heart gives honor to God even if it does not turn to Him in words. An unbeliever who is filled with thanks for his very being has ceased to be an unbeliever.

Paul Tillich

come back believer in shade believer in silence and elegance believer in ferns believer in patience believer in the rain

W. S. Merwin

A hungry people listens not to reason, not cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Seneca the Younger

No man is an unbeliever, but because he will be so; and every man is not an unbeliever, because the grace of God conquers some, changes their wills, and binds them to Christ.

Stephen Charnock

The fundamentalist believer is mostly a weird intellectual who often lacks real faith altogether. As a self-appointed attorney for God, who is in no need of attorneys, he very easily turns out to be more godless than the agnostic and the unbeliever. At all events, he seems deaf to poetry.

Steve Allen

I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

Alan Alda

The creator who could put a cancer in a believer's stomach is above being interfered with by prayers.

Bret Harte

I don't recite prayers as a blanket rule, but having said that, I do believe that prayers like The Our Father and Hail Mary are powerful prayers.

Krystle D'Souza

True religion, like our founding principles, requires that the rights of the disbeliever be equally acknowledged with those of the believer.

A. Powell Davies

Throughout my life, I have talked to Heavenly Father regularly through prayer. I am very grateful to my parents for teaching me that Heavenly Father lives and that He always listens to us. He listens to me, and He listens to you. I know that He will always be there for you.